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Are we hot or are we not? This week, Esquire magazine named two local restaurants as among the best new spots in the country. But just last week, the travel website TripAdvisor released its annual 10 best list and there wasn’t a Southern California spot on it.

On the plus side, Faith and Flower and Chi Spacca were both included on Josh Ozersky’s list of best new restaurants, released Tuesday.

Ozersky, the publication’s new editor at large covering food, hails Faith & Flower,...

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